English Exams & Writing Tools
Score conversions, writing checks and timing tools for IELTS, TOEFL and TOEIC — the parts of preparation that are arithmetic rather than practice.
Built for test takers, ESL teachers, academic writers. 20 tools published.
Academic Tone Checker
Finds the casual words that cost marks in formal writing, with a replacement for each one — and leaves alone the things exam writing is supposed to have.
💬CEFR to IELTS
Marks which mappings the test owners actually publish and which are guesses. There is no official IELTS-to-TOEIC conversion, and charts that give you one are inventing it.
💬Comma Splice Checker
Two sentences joined by a comma is the error examiners mark most. Catches the however-comma trap too, which almost no checker looks for.
💬Essay Word Count
Counts your essay three different ways, because the exam board does not publish which one it uses — and tells you how close to the minimum you actually are.
💬Essay Writing Timer
The rate you need climbs while you fall behind. Watching that number rise is the only way to feel it before the last five minutes.
💬GPA Calculator
Unweighted caps at 4.0, weighted goes to 5.0, plus/minus reaches 4.3. And a GPA is credit-weighted, so averaging the grades directly is wrong.
💬IELTS Band Calculator
An average of 6.25 becomes 6.5, but 6.24 becomes 6.0. The rounding is where people mis-predict their result — this shows exactly which side of the line you land.
💬Paragraph Balance
Finds the body paragraph that ran three times longer than the rest — without telling you to pad an introduction that is exactly the right length.
💬Passive Voice Detector
Separates passives that name who did it from the ones where the actor has disappeared — because only the second kind is usually worth changing.
💬Readability Score
Flesch reading ease and grade level, with the error bar every other tool leaves off — because syllable counting is a guess and the formula magnifies it.
💬Reading Speed Test
Time yourself on your own passage, not ours — then see how many seconds per question you have left once the reading is done.
💬Repeated Word Checker
Finds the word you used nine times without noticing — and reports a diversity score that survives comparison between texts of different lengths.
💬Revision Spacing Plan
Allocate topic reviews before an exam with confidence-weighted intervals and collision warnings.
💬Score Expiry Date
TOEFL scores become unsendable after two years. IELTS scores do not expire at all — the two-year limit is a recommendation your institution may or may not apply.
💬Sentence Length Checker
Two essays with the same average sentence length can read completely differently. This shows the distribution, the runs, and where the rhythm flattens out.
💬Target Score Gap
Raising one section by half a band can change nothing while another changes everything. This works out which, instead of subtracting four numbers.
💬Title Case Converter
Gone With the Wind or Gone with the Wind? Both are correct. This runs all four major guides at once and marks every word they conflict on.
💬Topic Sentence Extractor
Strips out every paragraph body and leaves only the opening sentences. If they do not make an argument by themselves, neither does the essay.
💬Typing Speed Test
WPM counts five characters as one word, not actual words. And gross WPM ignores your mistakes — net WPM is the number that means something.
💬UK US Spelling
Converts between UK, US and Oxford spelling — and refuses to touch the twenty verbs that end in -ise in every variety of English.